Genesis 35
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1And God said unto Jacob, Arise, go up to Beth-el, and dwell there: and make there an altar unto God, that appeared unto thee when thou fleddest from the face of Esau thy brother.
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2Then Jacob said unto his household, and to all that were with him, Put away the strange gods that are among you, and be clean, and change your garments:
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3And let us arise, and go up to Beth-el; and I will make there an altar unto God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way which I went.
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4And they gave unto Jacob all the strange gods which were in their hand, and all their earrings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which was by Shechem.
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5And they journeyed: and the terror of God was upon the cities that were round about them, and they did not pursue after the sons of Jacob.
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6So Jacob came to Luz, which is in the land of Canaan, that is, Beth-el, he and all the people that were with him.
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7And he built there an altar, and called the place El-beth-el: because there God appeared unto him, when he fled from the face of his brother.
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8But Deborah Rebekah’s nurse died, and she was buried beneath Beth-el under an oak: and the name of it was called Allon-bachuth.
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9And God appeared unto Jacob again, when he came out of Padan-aram, and blessed him.
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10And God said unto him, Thy name is Jacob: thy name shall not be called any more Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name: and he called his name Israel.
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11And God said unto him, I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins;
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12And the land which I gave Abraham and Isaac, to thee I will give it, and to thy seed after thee will I give the land.
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13And God went up from him in the place where he talked with him.
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14And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he talked with him, even a pillar of stone: and he poured a drink offering thereon, and he poured oil thereon.
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15And Jacob called the name of the place where God spake with him, Beth-el.
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16And they journeyed from Beth-el; and there was but a little way to come to Ephrath: and Rachel travailed, and she had hard labour.
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17And it came to pass, when she was in hard labour, that the midwife said unto her, Fear not; thou shalt have this son also.
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18And it came to pass, as her soul was in departing, (for she died) that she called his name Ben-oni: but his father called him Benjamin.
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19And Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath, which is Beth-lehem.
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20And Jacob set a pillar upon her grave: that is the pillar of Rachel’s grave unto this day.
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21And Israel journeyed, and spread his tent beyond the tower of Edar.
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22And it came to pass, when Israel dwelt in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father’s concubine: and Israel heard it. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve:
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23The sons of Leah; Reuben, Jacob’s firstborn, and Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulun:
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24The sons of Rachel; Joseph, and Benjamin:
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25And the sons of Bilhah, Rachel’s handmaid; Dan, and Naphtali:
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26And the sons of Zilpah, Leah’s handmaid; Gad, and Asher: these are the sons of Jacob, which were born to him in Padan-aram.
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27And Jacob came unto Isaac his father unto Mamre, unto the city of Arbah, which is Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac sojourned.
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28And the days of Isaac were an hundred and fourscore years.
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29And Isaac gave up the ghost, and died, and was gathered unto his people, being old and full of days: and his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.
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